The Strides of the Stanleys: Blog Neglect

I am so guilty of blog neglect. After Halloween I began to think about Christmas gifts, and buying for Jody has always been a struggle - he is so hard to shop for. Last year I stumbled across a website that would allow you to create a scrapblog. I found it interesting but didn't really dive into learning about it until after Halloween. They had added a new feature in which you could turn your scrapblog into a bound book or calendar. That was the moment I knew what I was going to get Jody for Christmas - he loves looking back at pictures and memories just as much as I do. I had all of my pictures from 2008 organized so I started month by month creating our family album for that year - picking out backgrounds, arranging the photos, and typing in what we did. It was time consuming but I got it done and was so pleased with the final product. And Jody even got emotional looking through it at Christmas. So I plan on doing one every year and would eventually like to go back and scan old pictures to make a scrapbook out of those. My sister has always made scrapbooks using Creative Memories and I was always so jealous of what she created but I just didn't have the time to sit down and physically cut out everything, but with this being computerized, it was right up my alley. Needless to say, I think I've had a good reason for neglecting my blog but now I have a lot of catching up to do. Instead of going into detail about what's been going on with us, I think I will use my pictures to show you what we've been up to. In this post, I will do November and December and do January and February in my next post.

NOVEMBER

Field trip with Savanna's Class